Professional officials iin other sports (watch British football for example) pride themselves on shutting out the noise of the partisan crowd and, if anything, err on the side of being a bit hard on home teams I agree with everything you have said, MB, but have you ever seen a penalty awarded again...

Good post, and some very good points. In close handballing is shocking at times. Twice in the last quarter by a co-captain brought us undone. Handpassing under no pressure over 10 metres is poor. Too often the receiving player has to bend to take ball around his knees. It's just basic. We have one b...

I can't remember a game where we were so slaughtered by the umpires, but at least 50% of it was that Sydney were too smart for the idiots in yellow. They've adopted the Adelaide tactic of throwing your head back every time you are tackled. They also verbal the umpires when there's a ball-up pointing...

Over the last couple of years a bunch of our players have been given defensive roles, either intermittently or permanently, and there has been popular opinion, if not consensus, here that each of them should be played in the half-forward area. BJ, Fiora, Dal, Voss, TS40, and now Gwilt, to name a few...